10.5.7 Makes Aperture 2.1.3 FLY

I have an old PowerMac G5 from Sept 2003 which I've upgraded over the years with RAM, a Radeon 800XT and larger faster internal SATA drives, but nothing comes close to the speed increases I see today after updating to Leopard 10.5.7
Easily 100% faster. In somethings faster than that. I can scroll through thousands of RAW images in Aperture 2.1.3 quickly and easily. Loading a Nikon D200 NEF RAW file now takes 3-4 seconds instead of 7-10.
Flickr slide shows in Safari 4 are seamless and quick. Pages load far far faster than ever before.
Dodge and burn tools respond instantaneously in real time.
Thank you Apple! This so rocks. It is like getting a new Mac for free!
Message was edited by: musicandlight

Just to be clear, I upgraded my old first gen dual G5 with 6GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X800XT to make Aperture even functional on this old Mac -- that and faster internal drives helped overall performance.
But whatever Apple has done in this latest 10.5.7 update in terms of graphics performance, I am seeing huge speed increases in Aperture with MY SET-UP.
For example: Selecting ALL PHOTOS in my 2009 Library (9,000+ RAW images to date) under 10.5.6 (and previous) used to take what seemed like a whole minute to BEGIN to display the thumbnails. Scrolling to the bottom of the page would yield placeholders until Aperture could catch up and that would also take literally minutes to happen.
I just checked and the 9000 plus RAW files were available in thumbnail form in 3 seconds and scrolling all the way to the bottom yielded images within 1 split second. Major major speed increase.
When using Apple's Dodge & Burn plug-in under 10.5.6 the lag between a click and its effect was several seconds, now I can paint with these tools in real time. Again a HUGE speed increase.
Of course just MY experience with MY MAC.

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